Comments on: “Court rules: Mazel tough” http://overlawyered.com/2006/07/court-rules-mazel-tough/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:39:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: nevins http://overlawyered.com/2006/07/court-rules-mazel-tough/comment-page-1/#comment-3547 nevins Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:00:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3746#comment-3547 "A Manhattan judge has tossed out a lawsuit by a couple claiming they endured 'humiliation, indignity, distress of mind and mental suffering' when they weren't able to have their daughter's bat mitzvah at The Plaza hotel. ... I thought a bat mitzvah was religious ceremony held in a synagogue; the spiritual, emotional, and socially important elements occur during the religious ceremony and far away from the hotel. Am I mistaken or have bar and bat mitzvah's become merely social and networking events for the parents? “A Manhattan judge has tossed out a lawsuit by a couple claiming they endured ‘humiliation, indignity, distress of mind and mental suffering’ when they weren’t able to have their daughter’s bat mitzvah at The Plaza hotel. …

I thought a bat mitzvah was religious ceremony held in a synagogue; the spiritual, emotional, and socially important elements occur during the religious ceremony and far away from the hotel.

Am I mistaken or have bar and bat mitzvah’s become merely social and networking events for the parents?

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